Archive for Jake Smith

Android Wear is Google's way onto your wrist through smartwatches from the likes of LG, Motorola and Samsung. Expect plenty more details to arrive at Google I/O, but heres' what we know now. Read: What is Google Android Wear and why should you care?...

Samsung isn't giving up on the wearables market, following measly sales of its Galaxy Gear smartwatch from 2013. Instead, it's back with two new versions; the Gear 2 and the Neo. We've rounded up the key differences between the three versions, seeing...

GoPro, the maker of small action-sports cameras, has launched a GoPro Channel app on the Xbox 360, in an effort to highlight entertaining footage. With the new Xbox 360 app, Xbox Live Gold members can stream official GoPro video content from their couch,...

Google plans to revamp its television offering by ditching the long-failed Google TV and launching a new Android TV platform. The Verge, who obtained screenshots of the Android TV interface, reports Android TV will be more closely aligned with other...

The Onion is out with a hard-hitting report on Saturday, detailing the Talbott family who tragically lost years worth of movies and television shows taped to their DVR. "You hear stories about people who mismanage their device settings, but you never...

Yahoo is considering its own video service to compete with Google's YouTube, sources tell Recode, as head of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, works to take on her former employer. The publication reports Yahoo has been trying to lure some of YouTube's top talent...

Philips and DJ star Armin van Buuren have paired together for a pair of A5-Pro professional DJ headphones, designed to meet the needs of a globe-trotting DJ. Van Buuren and Philips collaborated on the headphones to combine an aluminum close-back fit with...

Microsoft has officially unveiled the second-generation Kinect sensor that will be made available to Windows PC gamers. In a blog post on the Kinect blog on Thursday, the Redmond-based company showed a picture of the Kinect for Windows v2 and offered...

Philips is expanding its line of Hue smart-lighting products with the introduction of the Hue Lux, a white-only version of the smartphone connected light bulb. The Hue line had traditionally been full of colour, but that doesn't necessarily bode well...

Apple began promoting Microsoft's release of Office for iPad to the iTunes App Store on Thursday with a headlining image touting the apps' launch. It may seem a bit odd for Apple to do this, given its own iWork suite is made available, but when money...

Facebook has detailed its plans to bring internet connectivity to the next 5 billion people through the Internet.org initiative, along with Nokia, Qualcomm, and other technology giants. Based in Menlo Park, CA, Facebook has created a team within its walls...

Amazon has plans to unveil a free, advertising-supported streaming service complete with television and music video content, according to the Wall Street Journal. It won't be based around Amazon Prime, which costs $99 per year, like originally thought....

Microsoft has made the iPhone and Android versions of its Office Mobile app available for free, dropping the Office 365 subscription that had previously been required. Users will now be able to create and edit Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint...

The Samsung Galaxy S5 is now available for pre-order at Carphone Warehouse in the UK. Customers can get the Galaxy S5 at Carphone Warehouse for £42 per month through a two-year Vodafone contract, with no up front cost, or shell out £579 to get the...

Sony has posted the video presentation of the unveiling of its big virtual reality play called Project Morpheus, a technology that will allow PS4 gamers to feel like they're actually in a game, and negate the need for a television for gameplay. It's...

AppyParking wants to save you time by helping you park in London. The application, available on the App Store for iOS, allows drivers to see every Controlled Parking Zone in London. Using GPS, AppyParking identifies where you are in your car, and will...

Microsoft finally unveiled the Office for iPad app at an event today, 27 March, in San Francisco, complete with an entire Office suite that includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Microsoft appealed to iPhone users in the past with an Office app, but...

Twitter has just announced a big change to the way it handles photos on mobile. You can now tag up to 10 people in a photo through the iOS and Android apps, and tagging doesn't affect character count in a tweet. Essentially, this is acting like Facebook...

HTC has shown its first television advertisement spot for the new HTC One (M8) released on Tuesday, and one word to describe it is "blah". That's not our judgement of the phone, that's what actor Gary Oldman had to say. In a unique take on a handset...

A version of Minecraft could have been coming to the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, but after Facebook has acquired Oculus, that's no longer the case. "We were in talks about maybe bringing a version of Minecraft to Oculus," Markus Persson,...

Facebook is on a roll with its mobile apps and shows no sign of slowing down. There are now 1 billion monthly active users on its mobile apps, Facebook announced during its call discussing the Oculus VR on Tuesday.To compare to the fourth quarter of...

Facebook has purchased virtual reality company Oculus for $2 billion, the creator of the Oculus Rift headset that has been leading the VR space. Facebook plans to extend Oculus' existing position in gaming to new verticals, including communications,...

HTC won't be selfish with the new version of BlinkFeed within Sense 6.0, planning to bring the app to Android devices from other manufacturers. "Following its popularity with HTC users, HTC will now make HTC BlinkFeed available to other Android devices,...

HTC didn't build its own fitness tracking software for the new HTC One. Instead, it partnered with Fitbit, a player already well established in the space. The HTC One, available for purchase today, features the Fitbit app pre-loaded, so you won't have...

Music streaming giant Spotify is hoping to attract students with a new price cut on Tuesday. Its Premium service - the top tier with no advertisements and unlimited music - is now priced at $4.99 per month for college students in the US, a cut in half...